VA aggressively tackles backlog

2:05 AM,
Aug. 28, 2013

Written by

Allison A. Hickey

Too many veterans are waiting too long to receive earned benefits. That has never been acceptable.

While much work remains, the claims backlog has decreased 20 percent since March and now is at its lowest point in more than two years.

In the past three years, the Department of Veterans Affairs has expanded access to disability benefits for hundreds of thousands of veterans - from those with multiple deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan to those exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam or diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. While these decisions were the right choices, we knew pending ...